Our Leaders

Chrissy McCallum leads Orygen’s operations, ensuring day-to-day performance aligns with the organisation’s strategic priorities while strengthening cross-functional integration.

Professor Andrew Chanen is Chief of Clinical Practice. Andrew’s research, clinical and training interests lie in prevention and early intervention for severe mental disorders, principally personality disorders, along with mood and psychotic disorders.

​Jane Laidlaw is the Chief of Clinical Operations at Orygen, where she leads the strategic and operational delivery of youth mental health services across five headspace centres and the Youth Prevention and Recovery Care Unit (YPARC).

Professor Eóin Killackey is Chief of Research and Knowledge Translation and and Head of the functional recovery research program at Orygen. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in adolescent and adult public mental health settings and in private practice.

Pam is responsible for our People, Experience and Wellbeing function, which encapsulates our employee experience, volunteer engagement, youth participation and First Nations teams.